Rainbow Snippets: An unaccountable warden

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Being a sequel, In Love and Death is set directly after In Pain and Blood. Some snippets will contain spoilers of those events.

Following on from last week’s snippet…

Dylan sagged, the tent flap slithering back into place and obscuring the arguing duo. He hadn’t fully accepted what awaited him at Wintervale, but the hound’s words had brought the stark reality of it crashing down. He would be leashed, he knew that.

But to be placed under another warden?

With only one spellster available, whoever became his warden would undoubtedly be granted a lot of prestige. They’d be untouchable. Unaccountable for anything done to him beyond his own death. And if it wasn’t someone he knew, someone he could trust…

The hollowness in his fellow spellster’s eyes. The abuse heaped upon them. No beatings, nothing that would leave a mark and make those higher in command look twice, but forced into sexual acts they’d no say in performing. The utter glee in his warden’s laughter as he bragged about past conquests, promising that Dylan would do his own share of servicing.

I’ll be back with more from In Love and Death next weekend. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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